January 19th, 2008, 04:24
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Re: Family & Children
Question:My parents conceived me outside of wedlock, but got married before I was born, therefore I was born in wedlock. Both of them are non-Muslims, am I to be attributed to my father or to my mother?
Answer: If a man commits zinaa (adultery or fornication) with a woman and she becomes pregnant and he marries her whilst she is pregnant this marriage contract is not valid and the child is not attributed to the man. The Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم said: “The child is to the bed and the stone is for the adulterer” [1] i.e. the child is attributed to the mother and her relatives – her parents, children and those outside her nuclear family. The adulterer has no relationship with the child and as mentioned before, the marriage contract is not valid.
Answered by: Shaykh Abdullaah Abdur-Rahmaan Al-Ghudayyaan
Title of Lecture: The Four Principles by Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab
Date of the Lecture: April 1, 2006
Listen to Lecture: Click Here (Class #4)
Read the Transcribed Lecture: Click Here
[1] Narrated by abu Hurayrah in Saheeh al-Bukharee Vol. 4 #6432 with the wording below. Also found in Muslim, Abu Dawuud, at-Tirmidhi and others.
الولد للفراش، وللعاهر الحجر
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